John B. Jones becomes major in Texas Rangers
John B. Jones begins his adventurous career as a lawman with an appointment as a major in the Texas Rangers. Born in Fairfield District, South Carolina, in 1834, Jones moved…
This Year in History:
1874
Discover what happened in this year with HISTORY’s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.
John B. Jones begins his adventurous career as a lawman with an appointment as a major in the Texas Rangers. Born in Fairfield District, South Carolina, in 1834, Jones moved…
Chief Cochise, one of the great leaders of the Apache Indians in their battles with the Anglo‑Americans, dies on the Chiricahua reservation in southeastern Arizona. Little is known of Cochise’s…
Using new high‑powered rifles to devastating effect, 28 buffalo hunters repulse a much larger force of attacking Indians at an old trading post in the Texas panhandle called Adobe Walls.…
Law officers kill Jim Reed, the first husband of the famous bandit queen Belle Starr. Reed’s main claim to fame came from his marriage to Myra Maybelle Shirley, better known…
Future President Herbert Hoover is born on this day in 1874 in West Branch, Iowa. After being tragically orphaned at the age of nine, Hoover lived with his uncle, attended…
On this day, Thomas Hardy’s novel Far from the Madding Crowd is published. In the novel, farm owner Bathsheba Everdene is courted by three suitors, each showing a different face…
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, the British leader who guided Great Britain and the Allies through the crisis of World War II, is born at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England. Churchill…
A botched burglary attempt further clouds one of the earliest kidnap‑for‑ransom cases. As he was about to go to bed, wealthy New Yorker Holmes Van Brunt heard burglars breaking into…